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Partnership Transactions Lacking Economic Substance or Business Purpose: Investor Beware

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Assume that X and Y agree to the following: X will transfer ownership of Prop to Y, and Y will transfer cash to X. What just happened? Obviously, X has sold Prop to Y. If the amount of cash that X receives is greater than...more

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IRS Signals Increased Reliance on Partnership Anti-Abuse Rules

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Speaking at a Practicing Law Institute program on April 25, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) lawyer Clifford Warren indicated that the IRS has been using the anti-abuse rule of Treasury Regulation Section 1.701-2 to scrutinize...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup February 24 – 28, 2020

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of February 24 – 28, 2020. February 24, 2020: The IRS released final instructions to Form 8978,...more

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Final and Proposed New BEAT Regulations Contain Important Changes

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The final Base Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax regulations recently approved in T.D. 9885 generally follow the December 21, 2018, proposed regulations with a few important changes. The IRS also issued new proposed regulations at...more

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Update on Qualified Opportunity Zones: Second Set of Guidance Issued

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OVERVIEW OF QUALIFIED OPPORTUNITY ZONE PROGRAM - The Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) program, introduced in 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is a new incentive program for investments in over 8,700 QOZs located in all 50...more

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Second Round of Treasury Guidance: Key Provisions

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The long-awaited second round of Opportunity Zone-related Proposed Regulations were issued Wednesday, April 17, 2019. It is clear that Treasury’s goals, in its second round of guidance, were to: 1. Provide clarity and/or...more

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Additional Proposed Regulations Issued Regarding Opportunity Zones

As part of the US federal tax reform in 2017, Congress enacted sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), to provide incentives economic growth and investment in designated...more

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Opportunity Zone Funds – Part IV: The Second Round of Proposed Regulations

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On April 17, 2019, Treasury issued its second installment of proposed regulations relating to Qualified Opportunity Zones (“QOZs”). The regulations are 169 pages in length, and (as suspected) are fairly complex. Nevertheless,...more

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U.S. Tax Reform: IRS Proposes Interest Deduction Limitation Regulations

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On November 26, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under section 163(j) of the Internal Revenue...more

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Tax Alert: Understanding the New Pass-Through Business Deduction Rules Under Code Section 199A

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Due to the significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Tax Act”) at the end of last year, the Department of the Treasury has been very busy issuing guidance and proposed...more

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Newly Proposed IRS Regulations Put a Monkey Wrench in Plans by Service Businesses Seeking IRC § 199A Deduction

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The Service issued proposed regulations corresponding to IRC § 199A yesterday. As discussed in a prior blog post, IRC § 199A potentially allows individuals, trusts and estates to deduct up to 20% of qualified business income...more

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New Temporary and Proposed Regulations Regarding Debt Allocations for Partnerships - 'Oh My' - Tax Update Volume 2017, Issue 1

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Although There Are Aspects of the Regulations that Practitioners and Taxpayers Still Disagree With, There Are Others that Are an Improvement on What Was Proposed Earlier. From 2013 through 2014, the IRS and the U.S....more

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Treasury and IRS Issue New Temporary Treasury Regulations

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On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued new temporary Treasury regulations addressing the application of Internal Revenue Code Section 956 to certain...more

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